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Trump’s social network deal under New York grand jury scrutiny
FILE - In this July 24, 2021, file photo former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a gathering in Phoenix. The company planning to buy Donald Trump’s new social media business disclosed Monday, June 27, 2022 that it has received subpoenas from a grand jury in New York. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. dropped 7% in morning trading Monday as the company reported that the subpoenas and related investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission could delay its acquisition of the maker of Trump’s Truth Social app. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
life
Record players and not-so-smart phones: What the rise of retro tech says about us
report on business
Ensuring a sustainable future for Canadian agriculture takes root
technology
TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers
FILE PHOTO: The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company's U.S. head office in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
technology
Snowflake set to hire hundreds and open Toronto office to support U.S. cloud giant’s apps push
Sign for the law firm Borden Ladner Gervais, is photographed outside the Bay Adelaide Centre on Feb 22 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
world
How deepfake videos can help find missing people
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technology
Spotify forms council to deal with harmful content after Joe Rogan backlash
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone and a headset are seen in front of a screen projection of Spotify logo, in this picture illustration taken April 1, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
technology
Chief executive of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business to step down after 23 years
FILE PHOTO: Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations, speaks during a press conference announcing Amazon.com's new program to help entrepreneurs build businesses delivering Amazon packages, including $1 million to fund startup costs for military veterans, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., June 27, 2018. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
rob magazine
Telesat is in race to deliver high-speed satellite internet, but it’s going up against two of the world’s richest men
Telesat, a once stodgy psuedo-government outpost, is in a race to deliver the fastest satellite internet to customers around the world. But it's going up against two of the richest (and most unpredictable) men on the planet
international business
Hyundai Motor Group to invest $5-billion in U.S. up to 2025
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, listens to Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul, Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Seoul. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
real estate
Ontario developer set to roll out 3D-printed homes in Gananoque
Renderings of the submitted candidates for the 3D-printed home competition in Gananoque, Ont. Design by UBBChile, Chile and CyBe, Netherlands.
music
Composer Nicole Lizée’s approach to opera is as classic as you can get
Nicky Lizee, composer, in studio Mile End, Montreal
opinion
Tokenization, not crypto, is the future for Canada’s digital economy
Mark Wiseman
report on business
Alberta government gets flood of applications to use underground caverns for carbon capture
FILE PHOTO: An oil & gas pump jack is seen near Granum, Alberta, Canada May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
technology
Litigation in Rogers-Shaw M&A doesn’t stop a possible settlement, competition bureau says
A woman holds two cellphones in this photo illustration in Chelsea, Que., Monday March 29, 2021. The proposed $26-billion merger between two of Canada's telecom titans has hit a new regulatory hurdle after the Commissioner of Competition has indicated it intends to block the deal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
style
Power dressing: Men’s clothing gets hit with energetic colours and utilitarian details for summer
technology
Twitter CEO says two leaders to depart company, hiring paused amid Musk takeover
FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Twitter logo on non-3D printed Twitter logos is seen in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
technology
U.S. regulators reportedly investigating Elon Musk’s delay in disclosing Twitter stake
FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, Calif., on Nov. 21, 2019. Many people are puzzled on what a Elon Musk takeover of Twitter would mean for the company and even whether he’ll go through with the deal.  If the 50-year-old Musk’s gambit has made anything clear it’s that he thrives on contradiction. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
canada
Ottawa should take lead on public alerts, Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry told
Lawyer Patricia MacPhee, representing the Attorney General of Canada, questions Michael Hallowes, a specialist in digital platforms for public safety and national security, as he provides information related to public alert systems at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Dartmouth, N.S. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Gabriel Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police cruiser, murdered 22 people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
small business
Shopify, Square among companies hoping to ease e-commerce slowdown by lending money to merchants
Désirée Kretschmar, the owner of the Plant Goals store in Peterborough, Ont., May 11, 2022. Photo by Ash Nayler Photographer/The Globe and Mail
technology
Quebecor a credible bidder for Shaw’s Freedom Mobile business, federal government source says
Quebecor headquarters is seen in Montreal on October 6, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
technology
Zoom urged by human rights groups to rule out ‘creepy’ AI emotion tech
FILE PHOTO: The Zoom Video Communications logo is pictured at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York, New York, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri//File Photo
investment ideas
Blockchain needs MP3 music moment to win over markets
A staff poses with a Creative MP3 player in Singapore May 17, 2006.
technology
Facebook sued in Kenya over work conditions for content moderators
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with Facebook's logo is seen in front of displayed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration taken October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
technology
EA to end its video-gaming partnership with FIFA
FILE PHOTO: The Electronic Arts Inc., logo is displayed on a screen during a PlayStation 4 Pro launch event in New York City, U.S., September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
technology
IBM unsure how long it can keep Russia-based staff on payroll in light of escalating sanctions, CEO says
BARCELONA, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 28: A logo sits illuminated outside the IBM booth at the SK telecom booth on day 1 of the GSMA Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and wearables gadgets like foldable screens. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
technology
Facebook owner Meta Platforms criticizes German antitrust watchdog’s data curb order as ‘flawed’
FILE - Facebook's Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on, Oct. 28, 2021. Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Meta, 17 million euros, or about $19 million, for violating Europe’s privacy law. The regulator, the Data Protection Commission, has been investigating how Meta Platforms Inc. complied with the requirements of the law, known as General Data Protection Regulation, in how it handled personal data in 12 data breach notifications between June and December 2018. The agency said Tuesday, March 15, 2022 that it found that Meta didn’t have the right measures in place to show it could protect EU users’ data. Meta said the fine is about record keeping practices from 2018 that it has since updated, not a failure to protect people’s information. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)
technology
Nintendo announces 10-1 stock split; sees Switch sales falling 9% year on year
FILE PHOTO: The Nintendo logo is displayed at the Nintendo Tokyo store, in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 19, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
technology
World’s main central bank group calls for people, firms to be given more control over data collected by Big Tech
FILE PHOTO: The tower of the headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is seen in Basel, Switzerland March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
technology
Elon Musk reportedly expected to be Twitter’s temporary CEO after closing $44-billion takeover
FILE - Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. In a regulatory filing, Twitter Inc. also disclosed that Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has pledged 35 million Twitter shares. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
technology
EU antitrust chief calls for global approach toward tech giants
FILE PHOTO: European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager looks on during an interview with Reuters in Brussels, Belgium, March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
technology
BCE profit jumps 36%, revenue climbs as results top pre-COVID-19 levels
The Bell Canada head office is seen on Nun's Island, in Montreal on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. The CRTC ruled Friday that Bell Canada has violated sections of the Telecommunications Act by failing to provide timely access to poles and support structures required by Quebecor's Videotron Ltd. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
technology
Twitter may charge ‘slight’ fee for commercial and government users, Elon Musk says
FILE PHOTO: A Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo
politics
Use of facial-recognition technology by law enforcement must be limited, say privacy watchdogs
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien waits to appear before The International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. The federal privacy commissioner says U.S. firm Clearview AI will stop offering its facial-recognition services in Canada in response to an investigation by the commissioner and three provincial counterparts. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
technology
Activision Blizzard shares rise after Warren Buffett reveals Berkshire took 9.5% stake in company
FILE - The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A top California state civil rights lawyer who was pursuing a discrimination case against the video game giant has been fired, and her colleague has quit in protest. Janette Wipper was chief counsel for the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing but Wednesday, April 13, 2022, was her last day. Her attorney says another department attorney involved in the case, Melanie Proctor, quit Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
technology
Google expands options for keeping personal information private from online searches
FILE - The logo of Google is displayed on a carpet at the entrance hall of Google France in Paris, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. European Union officials are nearing agreement on a set of new rules aimed at protecting internet users by forcing big tech companies like Google and Facebook to step up their efforts to curb the spread of illegal content. EU officials were negotiating over the final details of the new legislation, dubbed the Digital Services Act, on Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)